Londoner Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago One poster commenting on another topic mentioned an unfortunate experience in a straight hotel; this set me wondering whether such behaviour is commonplace in Thailand. I think not; it is true that when I'm with P in a hotel we don't look like a typical bar-boy and his client; he's now forty-three and I'm.... a little older. However, even considering our earliest trips to hotels outside Bangkok and Pattaya we never faced problems even when he was in his youthful-twenties. Planes, airports, restaurants, hotels....nothing. The only time when we have felt uncomfortable - and I stress felt- was when we were on a Phi Phi Island boat trip from Krabi which included a shared lunch for groups of eight or so tourists. Even then, it was hard to put our collective finger on why we both felt that way and both wanted to leave the table. It certainly wasn't the young Chinese (and noisy) girls who constituted the majority of the passengers. The people whom we felt were embarrassed by us were middle-aged, white and English-speaking. Only outside did we discover that we both felt the same way. An elderly Italian guy on the boat later went out of his way to be friendly to us. Perhaps he had noticed a frisson. A question; would a falang visitor in his fifties with a twenty year old Thai girl arouse cold looks or comments? Was it our sexuality or the assumption that our relationship was commercial that aroused the discomfort? Quote
